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HAVANA – On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautioned Cubans on Sunday that he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for “adverse news,” but he urged them to stay optimistic. Meanwhile, Castro’s younger brother, Raul, made his first public appearance as Cuba’s interim president, receiving …

MADRID, Spain – A reclusive Russian won the math world’s highest honor Tuesday for solving a problem that has stumped some of the discipline’s greatest minds for a century — but he refused the award. Grigory Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, won a Fields Medal — often described …

RYE, N.Y. – A man drowned after wading into a lake at a historic amusement park, the third fatality at the park in as many years, authorities said. Won Yong Kim, of Queens, was celebrating July Fourth at Playland Amusement Park with his wife and 5-year-old son Tuesday when he …